she's smiling. look at her face. she has a smile on her face. >> james gandolfini, as we said, was characterishly modest about snagging the part. quote, i thought it was a wonderful script, he said. i thought they would hire someone more debonair, a little more appealing to the eye. james gandolfini dead at the age of 51. he will be deeply, deeply missed. that does it for this edition of the fbi admits it is using drones to spy on americans here on american soil.

james gandolfini dead at 51. we're going to talk to people who knew him and follow his career closely. plus, a disturbing story out of ohio. a woman claims she was held captive for two years. tonight, we have exclusive video of what happened inside that home. we're going to show it to you. it is disturbing. and new claims about the explosions that brought down twa flight 800. why some are saying that was not an accident. let's go "outfront." good evening. i'm erin burnett. breaking news. actor james gandolfini, best known for his emmy award winning portrayal of tony sparano in hbo's "sopranos" is dead. gandolfini was on vacation in italy at the time of his sudden death. he was only 51 years old. here's a look at his accomplished career. managers have confirmed james gandolfini has died at the age of 51. a new jersey native with strong italian roots, the actor was in italy to attend a film festival in sicily, when he reportedly suffered a massive heart attack. >> your suit is wrinkled. let me fix it up for you. >> probably best remembered for his portrayal of tony sparano, a role which earned him three emmy awards. he also received acclaim for many other performances.

he was in a lot of feature films including "zero dark thirty" and "the man who wasn't there." gandolfini was well liked and respected in the industry. when the news of his death was reported tonight, many celebrities, friends and co-stars posted messages on twitter. he's survived by his wife, son and baby daughter. joining me now to talk about this news is michelle turner. when he first heard this news, we thought it was a hoax. did you have any knowledge that he was ill or was this just one of those horrible out of the blue things? >> absolutely, one of those horrible out of the blue things. the information we had was that he was on a bit of a holiday but was also in italy for an italian film festival in sicily that he

was going to attend late they are week. so that's the information that we had. so when we heard this, we thought it couldn't be. this is one of those hoaxes we hear. but in fact it is, and we are getting the information from hbo that he died from an apparent heart attack. >> just so shocking when you think about it for so many people who knew who he was and just connected with him. he seemed to be the kind of person, you couldn't play that kind of person unless you really understood it a little bit. >> we did connect with him. the interesting thing about that is, even though we connected with him, we did think that's tony sparano. the press didn't know a lot about him. he was very press shy. he was very much to himself. he liked his private life to be private.

but everybody still felt like they knew him well. >> he had that unique ability, what we were just learning that he loved motorcycles and things that you kind of crave all the information that you can about a person when something so sudden happens. what about his family? he had a teenage son but a very new little daughter. >> born in october of 2012 with his wife, deborah lynn, little daughter named lilliana. so he leaves his son michael from a previous marriage and a daughter. that's the saddest thing is he leaves two children behind. >> he was just so young, 51 years old. >> yes, very young. and to think that this could happen at any sort of time. like you said, did we have any indication, was he sick? we heard larry talk about how much he loved life and he was just a regular guy. and now to hear this, it is very shocking. >> thank you very much. you mentioned larry, and i did

have a chance to talk to our larry king, cnn's larry king just a little bit ago about james gandolfini's career and larry's view on that. and the last time that larry saw james gandolfini, which was just a few weeks ago out in las vegas, and he had just a story about him that seems to capture so much of this man. >> well, i think it was a little more than two weeks he was in vegas, had a dinner with him at the same table. he seemed jovial and happy. in fact, there was a big auction and one of the things they auctioned off was a big cruise of the mediterranean, and the guy next to him bought the whole boat for like $250,000 for the week. he bid only it and invited james gandolfini to go with him and james said, of course i'll go. he was very lively, very friendly. and according to a lot of people in the business that i talked to, an underrated actor.

he stamped himself in "the sopranos" that people overlooked the many roles he's performed. >> larry, you had a chance to interview with him, sit down with him and get a sense of who the person was. what was he like when you had that face-to-face, what was he like as a person? >> he was extremely friendly. kind of a reduced ego. he was -- the only way to put it, he was a regular guy. he was like one of the guys. i'm a brooklyn guy. you would want to hang out on a corner with him. hey, let's go have a pizza. he was just a down-to-earth regular guy. a lot of actors have airs about them. he had none of that. you would have liked him, erin. he was a gentle, fun person. really sad to hear this. i'm sure many, many americans are very sad tonight. >> larry, i have to say when we first heard it, you know how

sometimes you hear a rumor of something and people say, is it true? we thought it was a hoax, because it just didn't seem possible. he is so much larger than life and he's only 51 years old, or he was only 51 years old. none of us believed it. so when it was confirmed, we were just totally shocked. >> he did enjoy eating. >> so tell me a little bit about the part, when you said you were in vegas with him and you told the story about the $250,000 yacht for the week and the guy bought it and james said i'll go along, i'll be there. you described him as exuberant. tell me a little bit more about that. >> there was a table of about ten, it was one of those major

black tie dinners that they did in vegas for parkinson's disease. he was a big supporter and a fan of ali's. but i noticed that he enjoyed his food. it's kind of humorous to say, but he was not shy at the table. >> i guess that kind of fits with -- i'm just enjoying hearing you say this, because i'm just a fan that watched him over the years. and i go home every night and my husband has "the sopranos" on and i would stay why aren't you watching cnn? he's always watching tony sparano, loves him. when you say, larry, you know, just the sense of this person, that he was -- that he was -- he didn't care about entourages and all the riggermarole of being famous. >> he had none of that at all. if he was in your studio tonight

at cnn, he would have hung around with you. you would have had laughs with him, and we would have probably gone out with you after the show. that's the kind of guy he was. he was really unaffected. he enjoyed the moment, like when the guy bought the cruise, sure, i'll go. >> like that's cool, i'm going to do it. and larry, i guess your final memory, if you had to describe him in a few words, what would you say? >> he was a genuine good guy. as strong an actor as he was, as gentle a person as he was, he was -- you know, you will not see his likes again. >> and larry, i know i said that was the last question, but i wanted to follow up.

when you talk about him being a strong actor, i keep focusing on "the sopranos" because that's what i saw. but you were talking about how he was underappreciated in so many other roles he played. >> he is -- in america we have a lot of people who are character actors. he was a classic character actor. he played many roles, many diverse roles, villain, hero, best friend. through the ages we had many character actors. very rarely does a character actor become a star. and "the sopranos" made him a star. but he was always that character actor, which is the kind of person, the role comes first. he would subjigate himself to the other performers. and certainly he gets this role of a lifetime and becomes a major star. but in essence, he still walls a regular guy.

he was james gandolfini, a regular guy. >> it happened later in life, too, right? it didn't happen in his 20s. he was working and perfecting the craft at that time, he broke out when he was a mature person. >> correct. he was not an overnight hit. >> and our thanks to larry king for taking the time to join us and tell those stories on the back of such shocking and tragic news. still to come, dramatic testimony in the whitey bulger trial. and new claims about the explosion that brought down flight 800. why some experts are just now saying that was not an accident. and then something out of a movie. two americans charged with a lot to use an x-ray gun to target people they don't like. some of the targets were government officials. and nasa is worried there's a giant astroid barreling towards earth, and you might be the only way to stop it.

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our second story tonight, lies and murder. defense attorneys for accused boston mob boss whitey bulger literally tore into the prosecution's key witness. he is a confessed mob hitman. he's now turned to government witness. he has given three days of testimony tying bulger to multiple murders and putting the gun in one crucial instance, the gun with the trigger in bulger's hand. today bulger's team tried to convince the jury that he is not to be believed. >> reporter: portraying him as a mass murderer, a serial killer, a liar without remorse lawyers for james whitey bulger tried to undermine one of the

government's star witnesses. john martorano finished testifying after three days on the stand. bulger's lawyer pointing out inconsistencies or lies. you lied to your friend john callahan, didn't you asked frank brennan. referring to a man martorano shot dead. that was a necessity told the confessed hit man. i told him i wanted to see him. i couldn't tell him i wanted to shoot him. at times he seemed to parse his words describing another murder martorano testified i stabbed him, i didn't kill him, adding not until later. he testified even bulger was older by a decade, he wasn't my boss. sometimes however the hitman would do what was needed no questions asked because bulger, quote, knew the right buttons to press.

bulger's lawyers suggested in cutting a plea deal, the government was prepared to give him whatever they wanted because they were desperate to make their case against bulger. the hitman said he knew if he lied he would go back to prison. before wrapping up the testimony martorano confirmed that together he and whitey bulger were involved in 11 murders, and that bulger allegedly told him he killed two others on his own. tomorrow, the families of some of the victims will testify. this trial is so important to those families. they have been waiting decades for whitey bulger to be brought to justice. new claims today that twa flight 800, you remember this flight. i remember where i was the day this happened. and i remember reading everything possible about it when it came out in the papers. it exploded over the atlantic association in 1996. now apparently it may not have

been an accident. the ill-fated flight killed all 232 people on board when it blew up on a very hot day, leaving john f. kennedy airport heading to paris. the initial investigation said the culprit was a short circuit on the plane that ignited a fuel tank. they were saying because it was so hot outside, the plane was delayed and that heat contributed to the spark. but a new documentary suggests that the official government report was incorrect. >> we show solid proof that there was an external detonation in the form of everybody knows about the eyewitness statements. we have radar data that shows an explosion coming out of that plane, something that didn't happen in the official theory. >> and as part of the documentary david mattingly did a special investigative documentary on this looking into the ntsb efforts to try to conduct an investigation. and also david what some people were saying there were

allegations of something shot from the ground, some sort of a rocket and conspiracy theories about what might have happened. what do you make of this new so-called evidence? >> let me put it this way. everything this filmmaker is saying flies in the face of what has become known as the most intense and most meticulous investigation in the history of aviation. this investigation did things that no other investigation ever did before or since. they actually recovered more than 90% of the plane from the bottom of the ocean. they didn't just bring it back to a hangar where they examined it. they gathered these pieces and they reassembled this aircraft, absolutely unheard of in any kind of air disaster

investigation. but they did that. i walked through this aircraft that they reassembled. i saw the pieces that they put back together and i listened to the investigators as they described how painstakingly they went through this aircraft piece by piece, wire to wire to come to their conclusion that it was a spark that ignited this empty tank beneath the aircraft. as far as a missile strike goes there would have been some telltale signs on the outside of this aircraft. there would have been pock marks and damage done from this missile that would have been easy to determine. they found no evidence whatsoever that this happened. they found no evidence whatsoever that there was a bomb on board the aircraft. they went into this thinking it might be terrorism and might be some kind of attack. they came away very quickly able to determine that this did not happen. now, a lot of these conspiracy theories focus on the radar.

there was about a dozen radar tapes that were compiled from long island at the time that this happened. i was able to see one of them that actually landed in the hands of a retired pilot who is one of the people that believes this plane was brought down by a missile. i have watched it with him in his own home and the conversation went just like this. listen. >> if this is a missile, we're about 30 seconds away from the explosion. >> that's right. >> how does it take a missile 30 seconds to reach that aircraft when it is so close. >> i have no explanation for that. >> we never see it cross the path of flight 800. >> you don't. >> you don't see the blip that was supposed to be the missile actually striking the airplane. you don't see it crossing the path of that airplane. this is just one piece of the evidence that we examined looking at some of the conspiracy theories out there. something the investigation did, it provoked sweeping changes by

manufacturer boeing. in about three years all of these aircraft will have been refitted or the aircraft will have new equipment to prevent this from happening again. what won't go away here are the conspiracy theories that seem to ignore the facts that were brought up in this investigation. >> thank you very much. just incredible that you got to walk around in there and have a chance to actually see some of those radars which is pretty incredible. maybe for those out there who believe in the conspiracy theory it gives you a chance to reconsider. big ben's market dive. the dow jones plunged today more than 00 points. this is a big drop, and the reason, this. >> generally speaking, financial conditions are improving. >> that's right, they're improving. why is that bad news? because today, for the first time, ben bernanke, the federal reserve chairman, talked about taking the drug away from the

addict. he's talking about cutting back on the fed stimulus program which basically has been pumping money into the economy to keep interest rates low. that's helped prices for a lot of things, real estate, stocks included. we're now on round three of what i call, you know, pumping money into the economy. they call it quantitative easing. with their noses in the air. each of the new rounds has caused stocks to move higher. starting later this year, the fed will take the drugs away and may cut the addicts off entirely next year. ben white, chief economic correspondent for politico. ben, thank you. so people -- he comes out and says things are getting better. >> and the stock market tanks. >> you say what's wrong with these crazy people on wall street? americans say -- 44% of americans say they're worse off

than they were a year ago. >> i think what it means for people who have a house who might want to refinance it, they should probably do it, because interest rates will go higher if the fed stops doing all this drug giving to the economy. so if you're going to refinance, do it now. if you're looking at a new home purchase, do it sooner than later. but in terms of stocks, hold on to them. wait this out. it's going to be crazy while the market tries to figure out when the fed will take this drug away. if you're really risk averse and nervous, you might take some money out of stocks. >> and i believe your refieing, right? >> i'm buying a house for the first time. it was ben bernanke who encouraged me to do it. i looked at the rates and said they're at 3.9, they might go higher. >> what about that chart i put

up earlier that every time there's been this big pump, this push of money into the economy, it's like a heart, you put the money in, the market goes up. so what happens, you're saying it may not go down sharply. what happens when it goes away? >> it may go down a little bit. as we know, this activity that the fed has been involved with, they make stocks look cheaper. and people want to get in on stocks and they've risen a lot every time the fed has done this. but the funds underlying the economy are not that bad. housing prices are not that bad. if the fed does it right and do it slowly, if they take the drugs away in a methodical way, stocks will find balance again and will continue to rise over the long-term. it just means in the interim, we'll have a lot of days like this where traders look at what ben bernanke said. it's unprecedented territory, so it's going to be a rocky ride.

there's a chance they mess it up and i say the chances are very slim. >> thanks, ben. and there's going to be a new fed chief, because he's getting out of dodge. a disturbing case of alleged forced captivity in ohio. three people have been arrested for holding their mother and daughter captive. we have exclusive video of we're going to show you. it is disturbing. it's hard to watch. but it is central to what might have happened in this case. plus, the man who shot and killed trayvon martin, in court today. we have the latest from george zimmerman's trial. and what does a $7 million yacht look like? yeah, we're going to show you and tell you which world leader you would never expect owns it. e walmart's education benefits to get a degree, maybe work in it,

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we start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on reporting from the front lines. i want to begin with the irs. it is expected to pay $70 million in bonuses to employees. according to senator chuck grassley. he sent a letter to the irs' acting chief asking him to explain why the agency would be giving out bonuses that are supposed to be frozen under federal spending cuts.

this comes two weeks after the report about the $4.1 million the agency spent on a conference including more than $50,000 spent on a video. like this star trek parody. federal official tells cnn two men are charged in a plot to use some sort of x-ray machine to target people they didn't like and that includes high ranking government officials. so it's something to be taken seriously. glenden crawford and eric were a new report finds business majors are 8.2 times more likely to work in jobs they're more qualified for. and now we have breaking news tonight in the case of a mother and daughter who allegedly were held captive for two years in ohio. i want to show you this video. it is exclusive video we have obtained in this case. i am going to show it to you in a moment. authorities now say a fourth person has turned himself and will be charged with forced labor. this comes after yesterday's announcement that callan, jessica hunt and daniel brown were arrested for forcing a mother and daughter to live in inhuman conditions, eat dog food

and perform manual labor while threatening them with poisonous states and pit bulls. callahan and hunt deny the allegations. andy hyde, who represented jordie callahan in state court. thank you have taking the time. we appreciate it.

this comes after yesterday's announcement that callahan, jessica hunt and daniel brown were arrested for forcing a mother and daughter to live in inhuman conditions, eat dog food while threatening them with poisonous states and pit bulls. callahan and hunt deny the allegations. thank you have taking the time. we appreciate it. let's start with the allegations here because as i go through them the allegations as you well know are pretty horrific. a mother and daughter abused, eating dog food, tormented by snakes and pit bulls forced to sleep on a cement floor with no mattress. how does jordy chandler explain the accusations. >> it was clear they were never

forced. this group was all friends. there are photographs we showed your reporters that had them all drinking beer together and laughing and joking on a couch. they moved to several different residences together. this is not a forced slave labor. >> so let me ask you about this video that i know you have. this is video taking by jordie on his cell phone. we are going to show parts of it but it apparently shows the mother here who authorities say was a victim hitting her daughter in 2011. the mother says she was forced to do this by jordie chandler and the others. she was threatened with a beating. we are going to play the video for our viewers you can see her. we have blurred everyone in the pictures. you will see her. >> the video is horrific. i cringe every time you see

something like this. she said she never beat her child. they told her they had video of it and she admitted to beating her child once. they told her she did it numerous times in the video. she said no one made her when they told her they were going to investigate. she said she was forced to do it. this was a woman who -- when they investigated that they said they were in the room egging her on when the video clearly shows she is alone. the story is they told her to do it. her story has changed so many times i think a strange credibility to believe. this is not a slave labor type case. >> how do you explain why she is saying what she is saying now? it is so specific. it is the pit bulls, the snakes. so specific and so -- the list is long. >> right. and jordie callahan and jessica

hunt's four children lived with them with the snakes and dogs and iguana. the child's mother says she was not in the room with the reptiles. to watch the series of conversations they had with her, her story changes as the case progresses until she gets to the point where everything bad happened is something someone forced her to do. it started out with her denying all of this. the evidence shows she's now got this story and i believe she is sticking with it. >> thank you very much.

the fight continues over the 911 calls, which we've been expecting an answer on. they were made on the night that trayvon martin was shot. a hearing is scheduled tomorrow to determine whether expert witnesses will be allowed to analyze that crucial video evidence on the stand. cnn legal analysts out front tonight. mark, let me ask you about this. this 911 audio could be incredibly important. because you have this call coming in, and you have george zimmerman talking about whether it was his voice. but they haven't made a decision. why is it taking so long? >> well, it's turning out to be complicated. the defense has expert witnesses who indicate that it is george zimmerman's voice that is saying "help me, help me." then the state put on a witness that indicated those witnesses, the state's witnesses indicated that in fact it was trayvon martin's voice. well, the defense challenged that and there's a hearing going on, which is basically to determine whether the techniques and the scientific manner in which the prosecution is using

the tapes is admissible. whether it should even get into court. the two experts that the defense -- that the state brought on have really been slammed by the other experts. some world renowned experts saying they were using untested, unreliable and unscientific standards when they say the -- the states witnesses are saying they should be using them. >> do you think it will be allowed or not and does that give a huge advantage to one side or the other? >> it does give an advantage if it's left out. i hate to sound like a lawyer, but it's 50-50 on this one. the judge wants to be fair and let the jurors evaluate which side they want to give credibility to, but it's an appealable issue, and in the event of a conviction when they have witnesses using untested standards. >> mark, the zimmerman appeared in court today. i believe this is the first

time. i know his brother robert issued a statement and talked before, but apparently is not quote unquote sanctioned by the family. but why today? what was the strategy? >> you know, you've got jurors now who will be seated. these jurors are taking a look at everything going on in the courtroom. so you want to be able to show that your client, the defend, george zimmerman, is a feeling, thinking, breathing human being. you want to give him some life. and having loved ones around you passes on that message to jurors. so i think that is strategic. it could be that they want to be there for support. at a minimum, they're there to show support to show that they have a son. that is something a juror can relate to. >> mark, thank you. still to come, the next heir to the british throne is on the way. i say heir, girl or boy, because that's the law of the land now.

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this has been confirmed by a source that the planned hospital for this royal birth. the couple don't know whether or not they're having a boy or a girl i'm told. in fact, they won't find out until after the baby is born. so we'll have someone coming out, with a notice that will be put up on the railing declaring this new royal birth. that will say for the first time whether or not it is a boy or a girl. so details are coming out slowly, but coming, drip by drip. this is a story everyone is interested in, of course. >> now with this story, unsuitable. the founder and executive chairman of men's warehouse clothing stores has been booted from his job. his name is george zimmer. if you don't know his name, i

guarantee you know his voice. >> you're going to like the way you look. i guarantee it. >> told you so. men's warehouse isn't saying why zimmer is being dumped. but in a statement, he says the board has chosen to silence my determination. it may be the board did not like his views on, well, let's just say illegal drugs. he refused to require criminal background checks and supports legalizing marijuana. zimmer helped found california's proposition 19 to legalize marijuana. great to see you both. john, do you think this is the big question for companies with this whole pot issue, should pot be legalized?

>> i do think pot should be legalized or at least decriminalized. you see this across the country, attitudes of changed. more than 50% of americans think pot should be legalized. so yeah, wake up. it's not a threat oh the republic. >> margaret, could employers stop testing for marijuana use? >> i don't think they could. and i don't think that pot should be legal. i think the headline is, do you want a rising generation of couch potatoes here? what we know is that the more pot -- if pot is legalized, it will become cheaper and widely available and more people will smoke it. what concerns me is the kids, because we know teenage pot use is way up, and we know teenage pot use correlates directly with perceived risk. so if kids are hearing that the government says pot isn't bad for you, they're going to be smoking more of it. and medical science tells us smoking pot is bad for teenage

brains. >> look, i'm strongly against legalizing or decriminalizing things like cocaine. but let's get real. in terms of the background check, science aside, these folks -- >> science aside. >> just for one second, if it's a pilot, i don't want him smoking pot. >> but the guy mixing your soup you're okay with it? >> i'm okay with it. i don't care if they're stoned. >> what about criminal background checks? first, legalize pot. he's a recovering alcoholic, so he says give people a second chance. >> i think people should get a second chance, but there's a happy medium here. if they have a criminal record, they should get a background check. but if it's whether they

smoked -- went to a dead show 20 years ago and got busted for a dime bag. >> yeah, dime bag. >> i don't think you just eliminate criminal background checks. that's a tool that employers get to use to judge by the results of the background check, what kind of risk these future employers could be in their store. this is a tool. they can do whatever they want with that information. but just to eliminate that tool that employers have, i don't think zimmer -- i think he's off base here. >> one thing that is a bad idea is dumping a company's founder, when it's been that successful. >> everybody watching goes, i know that guy. and i like that guy. >> it's hard to believe. he's built this company for 40 years and they just dumped him? >> bad idea. >> all right. thanks to the power duo. we appreciate it.

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